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· 12/29/2008

Carroll v. Sanders

Citations

  • 551 F.3d 397
  • 60 Collier Bankr. Cas. 2d 1692
  • 2008 U.S. App. LEXIS 26421
  • 2008 WL 5386525

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • “Although not an ‘absolute’ imperative, the ‘rule of last antecedent’ creates at least a rough presumption that such qualifying phrases attach only to the nearest available target.”
  • using the last antecedent rule to interpret a statutory provision

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Judges: Gilman, Sutton, Kethledge

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